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Polpis, Massachusetts

human settlement in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ7225976 ↗
Source-derived summary

Polpis (also Milton Poadpis or Podpis) is a village in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. Its elevation is 7 feet (2 m). The different spellings of its name led the Board on Geographic Names to designate its official spelling in 1900. The community lies 3.5 miles (5.5 km) northwest of Siasconset.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Polpis, Massachusetts” is human settlement in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Polpis, Massachusetts and human, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Polpis, Massachusetts and human is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “human settlement in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States of America” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7225976. Authority coordinates are 41.298, -70.013. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1900.

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This entry incorporates text from “Polpis, Massachusetts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.